Sensory Room Mondays
The Center on Disability Studies (CDS) and the OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) collaborated to establish a sensory room at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), located in Kuykendall Hall 106. Sensory rooms, increasingly popular in schools, hospitals, and community spaces, provide controlled sensory environments to promote self-regulation and stress management. This initiative positions UH Mānoa with its peer and benchmark institutions, 55% of which offer some form of sensory-friendly spaces.
Funded by the UH Foundation and the Oak Foundation, the project includes a fully equipped 13-item sensory room and the CAMP+U professional development program for UHM faculty, administrators and staff. The free online course focuses on disability awareness, Universal Design for Learning, learner-centered educational technologies, and strategies for fostering classroom belonging and sensory integration.
Sensory Room Mondays
Every Monday (excl. select dates*)
January 13 – May 5, 2025
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Kuykendall 106 Events Room
*Sensory Room Closures:
- Martin Luther King Day (1/20)
- President’s Day (2/17)
- Spring Break (3/17)
- April 14 (conference)
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![Lights in a corner](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lightcorner-300x200.webp)
![Light orb projected on wall](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lightorb-300x200.webp)
![Blue fiber optic lights](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lightsfiberoptics-300x200.webp)
![A photo of artificial green luminescent jellyfish in a tube of water.](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/squids-200x300.webp)
![Photo of the sensory room workshop.](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/workshop-300x200.webp)
![Photo of a woman explaining the lights on a mat.](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lightsmat-300x200.webp)
![Photo of the fidget table.](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/fidgettable-300x221.webp)
![](https://cds.coe.hawaii.edu/campu/wp-content/uploads/sites/72/2024/04/CAMP-U-Logo-Transparent-1-1024x321.png)
![](https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SensoryRoomInfographicScreenShot-copy.webp)
Upcoming Events
- Place-Based Book Club on Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Methodologies: Mo‘olelo and Metaphor
- 2025 Sustainability Workshop: Sustainability and Climate Change Across the Curriculum
- Workshop on Lamakū Learning Management System
- Introduction to EndNote Online
- It’s All about Great Teaching
- Film Screening & Discussion of SHAKA, A Story of Aloha
- Spring Virtual Writing Room
- Friday Afternoon Yoga
- Sensory Room Mondays